Prince Bernhard was forced to resign from virtually all his public and official posts after a government commission severely chastized him for “extremely imprudent” dealings with Lockheed.

The Royal House of Orange has held sway in The Netherlands almost without interruption for 400 years, and according to the constitution, its monarch is “inviolable.” Most of Queen Juliana’s royal subjects hoped that the same was true of her dapper, German-born husband Prince Bernhard, 65. When rumors from the…